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Bjarke Ingels

Bjarke Ingelsby mapolis | 11.07.2011

Bjarke Ingels was born in 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1998, he successfully completed his architectural studies.

Bjarke Ingels was born in 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1998, he successfully completed his studies in architecture, after studying it at the Kongelige Danske Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura in Barcelona, Spain.

From 1998 through 2001, he used to work for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam. After that, Bjarke Ingels founded the PLOT architectural bureau in Copenhagen together with Julien de Smedt. At the Venice Architectural Biennale, PLOT won the Golden Lion in 2004 for their plans of a concert hall in Stavanger, Norway.

The two partners split up in 2006, and Bjarke Ingels founded the BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group architectural bureau in Copenhagen.

Teaching at the Columbia and at Harvard in the USA is also part of his career.

Awards (selection):

2009 ULI Award for Excellence (for “Mountain Dwellings”)

MIPIM Award 2009 für Wohnungsbau (for “Mountain Dwellings”)

2008 World Architecture Festival Award for Best Residential Building (for “Mountain Dwellings”)